Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skipper Roosevelt was coasting up Cape Cod toward the Pilgrim Tower at its tip when the Bernadou sped up from behind, put Assistant Secretary of State Moley aboard the Amberjack II for an hour's talk with the President. Mumbling polite nothings to the Press, Braintruster Moley flew off in a blue Naval seaplane for New York where he sailed next day for the London Economic Conference...
...Most famous attempt to steal Britain's crown property occurred in 1671, when the notorious Col. Blood (probably at the instigation of Charles II) nearly succeeded in filching the crown jewels from the Tower of London...
...hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto with the chubby red tower across the river, and later he had watched the channel lights on the bridges wink at themselves. Tonight, though, he had not been alone; a cur had laughed at his feet in the water, and whipped a tail in his eye, and besides, the green tower interfered with...
Numbering nearly 1,000 separate items, the collection was presented to the University by Mrs. Joseph Tuckerman Tower, of Millbrook, New York. It includes principally books, maps, and documents which were collected by her son, Joseph Tuckerman Tower, Jr. '21, who died in Mexico in 1931. Before his death Tower had planned to give his collection to the Institute...
...most unusual items in the Tower collection is the "Hudson's Bay Proclamation", issued in 1688 by King James the Second, restricting trade in the Hudson Bay area to members of the Hudson's Bay Company. Only three other copies are known to exist. These are at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Public Record Office in London, and the Harvard copy is the only known copy in America. The proclamation is in the form of a large folio broadside, printed in black letter...